An Apple patent application for a metallic glass process may hold the secret to the beautiful iPhone 11 Pro finish on the rear glass.
The rear glass is a subtle yet lovely design feature of the flagship iPhone, looking more like a metal than a glass – and that may be because the material includes the properties of both…
HP’s new Chromebooks support the universal stylus standard
September 27, 2019
HP’s latest Chromebooks, the x360 12b and 14b, are the company’s first to support the Universal Stylus Initiative (USI), the new standard that lets compatible styluses work seamlessly across a range of different devices. The Chromebooks have been released as part of a…
Autoblow AI is a sex toy that promises ‘surprise’
September 27, 2019
NSFW: This article may contain links to and descriptions or images of explicit sexual acts.
The phrase “artificial intelligence” conjures all sorts of ideas about a synthetic consciousness that knows us better than we know ourselves. But it’s more often…
Snapdragon 855-powered Realme bags Bluetooth certification
September 27, 2019
Realme is one of the fastest-growing smartphone brands around and the company is known for its excellent price-performance ratio. There have been rumors that Realme is gearing up to offer a device with a flagship-grade chipset and a new certification from the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) hints that this is indeed coming.
Realme RMX1931 SIG certification
The Realme RMX1931 features a…
Sound can make a game. And the latest offering from DTS should help make Microsoft’s Spatial Sound tech stand out even more.
The company announced Sound Unbound today. It’s an app that supports Microsoft Spatial Sound, which helps deliver rich 3D sound to headphones and…
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Esports is a billion-dollar competitive video gaming phenomenon, and a booming market. Professional players are drawing larger and larger team salaries, while monetizing their fans on personal channels. Meanwhile, big brand sponsors…
Hugging Face launches popular Transformers NLP library for TensorFlow
September 27, 2019
Maker of the popular PyTorch-Transformers model library, Hugging Face today said it’s bringing its NLP library to the TensorFlow machine learning framework. The PyTorch version of the library has seen more than 500,000 Pip installs since the beginning of the year, Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue told VentureBeat.
The Transformers library for TensorFlow brings together the most advanced…
Add the Xbox One to the long list of things Google Assistant can control. This morning, Microsoft and Google jointly announced the Xbox Action, which enables console owners of any Assistant-enabled smart speaker, smart display, or mobile device (iOS or Android) to launch…
OnePlus SMS app taps AI to categorize messages and display content as visual cards
September 27, 2019
OnePlus is introducing a new AI-powered feature to its SMS app today, one that automatically groups messages together by category — much like Gmail does for email. Additionally, traditionally plain-text SMS messages will now be displayed as visualizations to make them more…
AI completes users’ rough sketches
September 27, 2019
Artistic composition tools imbued with AI are fast becoming old hat. Scientists at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, a collaboration between MIT and IBM to jointly pursue AI techniques over the next decade, recently detailed a tool that lets users upload any photograph and edit the appearance of buildings, flora, and fixtures. And in March during its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose…
